Great apes range in Africa

Great apes range in Africa

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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species website, accessed on February 2013; Conservation International, IUCN/SSC/WCS,
Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of the Cross River
Gorilla, 2011; Ginn, L., et al., Strong evidence that West African chimpanzee is extirpated from Burkina Faso. Oryx, 2013, in press.

Description:
There are two populations of Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei
beringei): one in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda (extending into the Sarambwe Forest in DR Congo), and the second in the Virunga Volcanoes conservation area comprising the three national parks that straddle Rwanda, Uganda and eastern DR Congo.
The Eastern Lowland gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri), also
known as the Grauer’s gorilla, is only found in the eastern low-
All great ape species have experienced considerable declines in population size and range over the past few decades. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species lists all of the great apes as either Endangered or Critically Endangered and all great apes except the Mountain gorillas show decreasing population trends. Most notably, fewer than 300 Cross River gorillas are left in West Africa; as few as 2,000 Eastern Lowland gorillas remain; and it is believed that as few as 6,600 Sumat ...

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